What's the worst machine you have ever played .....

Mr Move It · Post by **Mr Move It** » Thu Sep 09, 2010 3:16 pm

I had a mate around my place for 3 nights, so we went halves on the £70 jackpot machines. All new to us, both of us being casuals. The most playable machine was Barcrest's "It's Amazing" which seemed to be a cross between QPS's Tae-Kwon-Dough (main board with extended boards and lock-ins) and DOND. The worst machine by far was Alien. It looks impressive with the red/green diamond shaped board and it seems to be a clone of the old Buccaneer / Addams Family type games. However, we both put £15 in (£30 in total) and we didn't get a single feature. Not even a 3 aliens bonus. Sure, someone has probably jackpotted it, but it's the deadest of dead machines we've played!

Cf · Post by Cf » Thu Sep 09, 2010 3:59 pm

Mr Move It wrote:I had a mate around my place for 3 nights, so we went halves on the £70 jackpot machines. All new to us, both of us being casuals. The most playable machine was Barcrest's "It's Amazing" which seemed to be a cross between QPS's Tae-Kwon-Dough (main board with extended boards and lock-ins) and DOND. The worst machine by far was Alien. It looks impressive with the red/green diamond shaped board and it seems to be a clone of the old Buccaneer / Addams Family type games. However, we both put £15 in (£30 in total) and we didn't get a single feature. Not even a 3 aliens bonus. Sure, someone has probably jackpotted it, but it's the deadest of dead machines we've played!

I was on a quiz machine next to an Alien once and saw someone put about £30-£40 into it before walking away without even getting a feature/win. It looked absolutely brutal. It's prob a good machine for a pro player who knows if it's ready/been done but for a casual like me I'm staying well away having seen that.

Mr Move It · Post by **Mr Move It** » Thu Sep 09, 2010 4:54 pm

Thanks Cf. I'm glad to know that I'm not the only one at the receiving end of Alien, and that there are other casuals here :-)

Matt Vinyl · Post by **Matt Vinyl** » Thu Sep 09, 2010 5:08 pm

Probably pertinent to say that Aliens will usually be ripped to shreds.

liverpool24 · Post by **liverpool24** » Thu Sep 09, 2010 6:16 pm

Haha, well it goes to show I have little or no knowledge of machines still after ten eyars of playing them.

Mattb · Post by **Mattb** » Thu Sep 09, 2010 6:54 pm

Yep, if you don't know what your doing on them, they can be awful. £70 for a board anyone?

Matt Vinyl · Post by **Matt Vinyl** » Thu Sep 09, 2010 7:40 pm

£40 is the worst I have had... lol

liverpool24 · Post by **liverpool24** » Fri Sep 10, 2010 8:43 am

Mattb wrote:Yep, if you don't know what your doing on them, they can be awful. £70 for a board anyone?

I've put 40 easy, yeah as I've said I didn't know a thing about the machine, just that you get board and then you die after 2 high.low gambles every time. In fact they'res still one in the arcade by my work.

Spyder · Post by **Spyder** » Fri Sep 10, 2010 9:00 am

Captain.Tattybojangles wrote:Who remembers an ACE machine called Twister? One of their newer games. That was dire.

£25 with stacks on the board? nudges features and cash?

theres a way of jackpotting this really easily... are there any around still? i made a fortune from this when it was first out, almost as good as mortal wombat!!

Matt Vinyl · Post by **Matt Vinyl** » Fri Sep 10, 2010 9:13 am

Care to elaborate? Even if just for emulator purposes. I seem to recall there was something on it to do with one of the features, but that's all.

Spyder · Post by **Spyder** » Fri Sep 10, 2010 9:31 am

it'd suck like mad even when ready, but you could hokey-dokey it for the pot very reguarly, you had to set the board up, and collect nudges on feature entry, i think it did it cause the hi/lo was so tight,

if i remember right you had to nudge at least two reels or it wouldnt let em spin, and certain board entrys would be 2 nudges for 2 red 7's

there were two near me and you could rip a £25 and count how much went in, about £40 between being ready again... spent a few friday and saturday nights just sitting waiting...

there was also a stop'n'step i think, about 4th feature from the top? but it had to be winning hi/lo gambles for that..

i think i lost on it about 3 times, broke even a few, but it was a good machine, completely un-forcable in the vivid era, lol

Matt Vinyl · Post by **Matt Vinyl** » Fri Sep 10, 2010 9:34 am

Heh, nice. Yup, JPM's used to love (well, at least do!) LES's on JP - usually red sevens. Are some of the other 'newer' JPMs available on the emulators? (I struggle to get on Fruit-emu, it seems random as to when it'll elt me access the site?!) I know 'Firecracker' is, but what about Fantaztec, etc?

Spyder · Post by **Spyder** » Fri Sep 10, 2010 9:41 am

Matt Vinyl wrote:Heh, nice. Yup, JPM's used to love (well, at least do!) LES's on JP - usually red sevens. Are some of the other 'newer' JPMs available on the emulators? (I struggle to get on Fruit-emu, it seems random as to when it'll elt me access the site?!) I know 'Firecracker' is, but what about Fantaztec, etc?

i reckon i saw fantastec on one site ages ago? can anyone link to the twister emu?

HornyNick · Post by **HornyNick** » Fri Sep 10, 2010 9:54 am

Twister:
http://www.fruit-emu.com/forums/files/f ... r-classic/

Probably the best newer JPM that I never saw in the wild, but wish I did, Your Lucky Knight:
http://www.fruit-emu.com/forums/files/f ... t-1024-dx/

I cant find Fanaztec so I assume the resources arent there or there is an emulator issue.

liverpool24 · Post by **liverpool24** » Thu Sep 23, 2010 3:09 pm

£5jp Bullseye in an arcade, first time i'd been in yesterday, £14 for a board which was dead after two h/l gambles, reels going slow, not holding, painful to play, my own fault but there was no other awp.